Passenger traffic at the airport has increased by 10.4 percent in the first six months of the year over the same period in 2015. That's almost double the jump it saw between 2014 and 2015.

The airport is one of 74 in upstate New York and one of 13 with passenger service, and the number of passengers makes Albany the fastest-growing among them, airport CEO John O'Donnell told the Business Review earlier this month.

Albany County Airport Authority chairman Kenneth Doyle attributed the increase to new flights from JetBlue and American Airlines, as well as the overall health of the economy.

To accommodate the increased traffic, the airport has a plan to win $40 million from Gov. Andrew Cuomo's $190 million upstate airport economic development funding contest. Changes would include 1,000 more parking spaces— the airport currently has about 6,000 — and technology to help travelers find a parking spot.

Southwest Airlines continues to be the airport's largest airline, accounting for 289,759 of the 680,340 passengers traveling through the airport this year.